Nokia said it has tabled a $2.93-per-share bid to buy Trolltech, a Norway-based software provider, to help it bolster its fast-expanding Internet services business. Trolltech’s board has recommended the offer, and shareholders holding two-thirds of Trolltech stock already have said they will sell up, Nokia said. The bid values the company at around $154 million, and represents a premium of $1.10 per share to Trolltech’s closing price in Oslo on Friday.
Holy paydays Batman, here is a situation that I still look at from both sides of the fence good and on the other hand a warning is going off in my melon. Baldy
I spent some time compiling this list and seeing how many nice games are available for Linux I couldnt help but wonder: why are we still using Vista? There are so many Windows advocates who bring as anti Linux argument an “absence” of games for Linux. Well, they are wrong! There are enough games from Linux and the great news is that they are free and fun!
Ask LC what she thinks of Mahjongg she loves that game,Baldy
Trolltech, the originator of Qt, which forms the basis of the Linux KDE desktop environment, is being acquired by Nokia, the world’s number-one mobile phone vendor. Nokia expects its acquisition of Trolltech to accelerate its cross-platform software strategy for mobile devices and desktop applications, and to enhance its Internet services business.
Now this is good however it might just be warning for the future,Baldy
Black Duck Software announced today the availability of Black Duck Code Center software to help manufacturers accelerate software development through the managed use of open source and third-party code. Code Center manages software component selection, project approval and license tracking designed to maximize benefits to organizations from their reuse of open source and other third-party software components. The new software addresses the complexities involved with mixing internally developed code with code from open source communities, partners, vendors, outsourcers and other third parties.
Now this is a great idea and one that will save a lot of folks time and money in the long run, Baldy
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Online retailer Amazon.com Inc said on Sunday it will begin an international roll-out this year of its digital music store that offers songs without copy-protection technology known as digital rights management.
Amazon said it is the only retailer to offer DRM-free MP3s from all four major music labels as well as thousands of independent labels.
Well we won the battle and finally got sound after fighting it for 2 days, listen up if you are planning to install Arch and run into the same silly problem, I had to add a Sound Group to make the sound work, I was told that all I had to do was make sure that my uses were all in the audio group they fibbed. So in the long run I have it installed and everything working just fine including the sound and it only took about 10 minutes to get it to recognize my local network and poof it was in.
Now that it is up and running what can I say about it? The first thing I can say is gawd it is fast, and I mean fast even when using KDE as a window manager. The second thing is the bleeding edge programs that the community seems to have a huge part in getting ready, a process that my favorite distro is just starting as of late. What that means is each one is installed tested and packaged for download and install by the users and made available to the general public for their own use.
I have to thank the one and only arch babe and my favorite babe LC. And for the record she is the one that suggested the sound group, so thanks kiddo. I will post some screenshots if and when I get the darn things posted I have them just not ready to post is all. I told you I was old and slow.
So in the end would I suggest this distro to a noob? The answer to that is not only no but hell no, would I suggest it to a newer user? Yes it makes for a great distro for people to learn linux from the ground up, even if it hates me you might have better luck with it. See you all later folks
You’d hope contingency plans were in place. Wouldn’t you.
And heck I was worried about dying from old age, First a plane parts fall from the skies and kill some poor customer in a car dealership and now spy satellites are falling when will all the falling stop. Maybe Chicken Little was right after all. Baldy
ECMA, the international IT standards association, recently published its responses to comments of the ISO National Bodies in response to Microsoft’s Office Open XML application for ISO standardization (the actual 2,293-page response is closed to the public). The ECMA proposals will be discussed at a Ballot Resolution Meeting (BRM) in Geneva after which the National Bodies may reconsider their original vote. Microsoft’s responses make clear that within one year, it will have four different OOXML specifications to implement and interoperate with, and each of those specs will be closed. Under no circumstances should such a flawed specification become an international standard.
With a new CEO on board and a major update of its Firefox Web browser expected this year, Mozilla hopes to reinvigorate its campaign to pull users away from Microsoft’s still-dominant Internet Explorer software. However, the open source vendor continues to expend little energy on wooing IT managers to formally adopt Firefox for deployment within their organizations. In the past, Firefox faced two main obstacles among enterprise users: its immaturity, and its incompatibility with corporate Web applications and intranets that relied on Microsoft technologies such as ActiveX.
January 29th, 2008 by 
Baldy
Nokia said it has tabled a $2.93-per-share bid to buy Trolltech, a Norway-based software provider, to help it bolster its fast-expanding Internet services business. Trolltech’s board has recommended the offer, and shareholders holding two-thirds of Trolltech stock already have said they will sell up, Nokia said. The bid values the company at around $154 million, and represents a premium of $1.10 per share to Trolltech’s closing price in Oslo on Friday.
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